17. Moradabad

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.3% to 14.7%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 27.5% — it did not contest here in 1996.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.7% between them, down from 93.1% — the field split more ways.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.